One of the main obstacles for any internet marketer is getting traffic to his websites. It doesn't matter if you're selling your own product, selling an affiliate product, trying to make money with AdSense or making money with small 7 dollar reports - traffic is the main key to your success.

Even if you know all there is to know about search engine optimization it could take weeks or months before you can get any decent free traffic from the search engines to your website or blog.

You website might get indexed fast by Google, but you're not going to appear in the top 10 search results for some time - if ever. If you're on a limited budget, you don't want to use Pay Per Click advertising like Google AdWords to drive traffic to your site. What can you do to get the attention from the search engines?

Is it really possible to get any significant free traffic from the search engines in 2007?

Yes it is - use the "Stepping Stones"!

What are "Stepping Stones"? - it's websites that the search engines just loves to index. Anything that is put on these Stepping-Stone-websites will be picked up by the search engines fast. All you have to do is to find out where the popular websites are, do a little keyword research and submit your content.

When you search on Google look at the first 10 results. Any article directory sites, social networking sites like technorati.com or blogging sites? Often you'll see f.ex. an article in the top results.

So what does Google really love?

Let's take a look at some Google page ranks:

www.squidoo.com has PageRank 7/10.ezinearticles.com has PageRank 6/10.www.goarticles.com has PageRank 6/10.www.articlecity.com has PageRank 6/10.www.usfreeads.com has PageRank 5/10.searchwarp.com has PageRank 5/10.www.associatedcontent.com has PageRank 7/10.www.ebay.com has PageRank 9/10.www.blogger.com has PageRank 9/10.wordpress.com has PageRank 9/10.del.icio.us has PageRank 8/10.www.digg.com has PageRank 8/10.www.technorati.com has PageRank 8/10. Google loves: - Article sites - Social networking sites like Squidoo, Technorati etc. - Auction sites like eBay - Google's own Blogger.com and WordPress - Paid advertising like USFreeAds.com

Use these stepping-stones to get traffic to your site. Write articles, use eBay, advertise on USFreeAds, build a blog and socialize on Technorati. Use Squidoo - Squidoo is hot right now. It's like MySpace, but much more friendly to internet marketers ... and it's no. 997 out of 6 millions sites on Alexa !

It takes time to write articles, blogging etc. but some of these stepping-stones will give you free traffic for years. Don't use just one stepping-stone, use several stepping-stones. Using the stepping stones is not a one-time effort and you must use some time to regularly "feed" these websites to keep the free traffic flowing - and get on the first page of the Google search results.

So go ahead and use the Stepping Stone method for driving free traffic to your site.